Quebec
Mosque shooting suspect was a fan of Donald Trump and Marine le Pen
Alexandre
Bissonnette was described by one former classmate as a 'nerdy
outcast'
Kevin Dougherty 4
hours ago
The French-Canadian
student charged in connection with a shooting spree that killed six
people at a Quebec City mosque was a supporter Donald Trump and
far-right French politician Marine Le Pen.
Described by one
former classmate as a "nerdy outcast." Alexandre
Bissonnette, is the sole suspect in the shooting.
The 27-year-old was
charged with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of
attempted murder with a restricted weapon. Police said he acted
alone.
Bissonnette's online
profiles show a wide variety of interests.
On his Facebook
page, he indicated he liked Le Pen, US President Donald Trump, the
separatist Parti Quebecois as well as Canada's left-wing New
Democratic Party, the Israeli Defense Forces, heavy metal band
Megadeth and pop star Katy Perry.
"I wrote him
off as a xenophobe. I didn't even think of him as totally racist, but
he was enthralled by a borderline racist nationalist movement,"
Vincent Boissoneault, a fellow Laval University student, told The
Globe and Mail newspaper. He said they frequently clashed over
Bissonnette's opinions about refugees and support for Le Pen and
Trump.
The University Laval
confirmed on Monday that Bissonnette was a social science student
there.
Bissonnette was a
cerebral "nerdy outcast," said former high school classmate
Simon de Billy, adding the suspect and his twin brother were
inseparable.
"He was an avid
reader, knew a lot about history and about current issues, current
politics, those kinds of topics," de Billy said. "He was
just a bit of a loner, always with his twin brother, didn't have any
friends.
"He wasn't
physically strong or imposing, and probably got a bit of a hard time,
was probably not taken seriously. ... He would be kind of made fun
of, the butt of the jokes.
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